MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition

MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition is an all in one free data recovery suite designed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. The free data recovery software supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition includes five data recovery modules: Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Digital Media Recovery and CD/DVD Recovery. These data recovery modules could handle the most data recovery requests and help you to get files back for you.

Undelete Recovery

Undelete Recovery module works only with deleted files and allows user to "undelete" them. This data recovery module focuses on recovering deleted files and folders. By using Undelete Recovery module, you could recover deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin and even files deleted by using SHIFT+DELETE key.

Undelete Recovery module supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS file systems. And it supports hard disk, flash drive, memory stick, memory card and flash card.

Damaged Partition Recovery

Damaged Partition Recovery has the most powerful file recovery ability to help you recover damaged hard drive. No matter the hard drive is reformatted or becomes inaccessible with unknown reason.

Files could be recovered by using this data recovery module as long as the partition exists. And also, it could give you more chance to recover lost/deleted files when Undelete Recovery is not working. This data recovery module not only recovers data from hard disk partition, but also it could recover files from memory stick, memory card and flash drive. When you focus on recovering documents and archive files from flash drive, memory card and memory stick, this file recovery module could help you to get your data back.

And this file recovery module not only supports MBR-style partition, but also supports Windows Dynamic disk volume. For example: Simple Volume, Spanned Volume, Mirrored Volume, Stripped Volume and RAID-5 Volume.

Lost Partition Recovery

Lost Partition Recovery module is designed to recover data from lost/deleted partitions. This is the most common data lost reason. And also, this data recovery module could help you to recover your data when hard drive crashed, MBR corrupted, disk repartitioned (fdisk) and partition be overwritten when you use data backup software to restore the disk image.

In other words, if you cannot find out the partition you like to recover in Damaged Partition Recovery module, you need to use Lost Partition recovery module.

Digital Media Recovery

Digital Media Recovery module is a powerful data recovery tool that could help you recover lost data from digital media device. For example: flash drive, mp3 player, digital camera, memory stick, memory card, iPod. You should try this data recovery module first when you like to recover photo, music and video files from these digital media devices. No matter your memory card is formatted or the files is deleted. This data recovery module should be your first choice.

CD/DVD Recovery

CD/DVD Recovery module is the most easy-to-use CD/DVD data recovery tool that you could find on the internet. This data recovery module is designed to recover data from CD & DVD disk. It is designed specifically to recover lost and deleted files from damaged, scratched or defective CD and DVD disks. This data recovery module can recover files recorded by common CD/DVD writing software. It supports to recover data from all CD and DVD disc types (CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, and DVD-RW), and from quick formatted RW discs. It also supports disc recorded with UDF packet writing software: DirectCD, InCD, packetCD.

Note that MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition is for private, noncommercial, home computer use only. Use of MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Version within any organization or for commercial purpose is strictly prohibited.

Another limitation of the Free Edition is limit on the amount of recovered data to 1 GB.

Website: http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/power-data-recovery-free-edition.html

Direct Download: http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/download/pdr6free.exe

Free Undelete Utility from OfficeRecovery

FreeUndelete restores deleted files, including those removed from Windows Recycle Bin. In case of accidental removal of files on a NTFS (default for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file systems this is the utility to help.

Supported file systems: NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16

The recovered files are saved into a new location to prevent overwriting the deleted files on the original media.

FreeUndelete is free for personal use. There is no charge, direct or hidden, to download and use a fully functional copy of the program. The program does not install any spyware or adware along with it. It does not populate user’s desktop with pop-up ads or forcefully subscribe user to mailing lists.

A deleted file is essentially an area on disk designated as free and ready to accept data (such as contents of some other file). Luckily, unless the area has already been overwritten, it still holds the contents of the deleted file. Due to this fact it is possible to undelete files.

This fact also dictates the following procedure for using FreeUndelete:

1. Stop any activity on the disk you are going to undelete files from! Remember that writing to that disk can damage the contents of the deleted files. Examples of disastrous activity include: copying files to the disk, installing programs there or running programs that use the disk as their swap media.
2. Download and install FreeUndelete. Whenever possible, save the setup executable and install the program to a disk that does not hold files you need to undelete.
3. Run and use FreeUndelete.

Tip: It is common that the only drive user has is C: and this is also the drive from where files need to be undeleted. In that case a good solution is using a USB flash drive as FreeUndelete download and install destination.

Features

• File systems supported: NTFS 1.0, NTFS 2.0, FAT32, FAT16
• Operating systems supported: Windows XP, 2000, NT 4 (SP2 or higher required), Windows 2003 Server
• Easy to use, no special user skills required
• Full install/uninstall support

Limitations

• Does not support Windows 98, Windows 98SE and Windows ME
• Utility is not portable, and should be installed on any of your disks.

System Requirements

• Operating system: Windows 2000, XP, Vista or 2003 Server
• RAM: 128 MB
• Hard Disk: minimum 10 MB of free space required for installation
• Display: 640 x 480 or higher resolution, 256 colors

Developers website: http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

SoftPerfect File Recovery

SoftPerfect File Recovery is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption. If your important files disappeared and you can’t find them in the recycle bin, try this software product and get the files back to life. Easy to use, no installation is required.

MAIN FEATURES

* Lightweight (268 KB only).
* Supports FAT & NTFS.
* Supports compressed and encrypted volumes.
* Supports most storage media.
* Easy to use, just run it!
* Completely portable, works from removable media, and does not leave any residual traces.
* Software is free to use for any purposes, as soon as the code is not modified.

Note that when you restore the files from the main boot-up Hard Drive, the success rate might be lower due to the considerations of the time to recovery parameter. The software is able to restore accidentally deleted files from built-in hard disk drives as long as two the following conditions are met:

1. The file was deleted recently and no writing was made on the volume after that.
2. So, if you delete a file from a system volume (e.g. C:’), there are little chances to restore it because the OS is constantly writing on this volume (logs, registry branches, etc).

Developers Website: http://www.softperfect.com/products/filerecovery/